Ismene wants to keep this between her and Antigone only as to not risk Antigone’s life. Ismene is tied between family and state, whereas Antigone is completely for family before state. Antigone becomes furious when Ismene thinks that they should keep it between themselves, Antigone wants her to scream it from the rooftops who had buried Polynices. This shows that Antigone is more confident with her decision and is clearly the braver one of the two sisters. While playing Antigone I tried to give her a little more attitude than Ismene.
Born Norma Jean, Marilyn felt rejected by everyone in her life, but she did not let this discourage her from pursuing her dreams. Marilyn Monroe came from nothing and managed to pull herself out of poverty and make something of herself. She embodied the American spirit because she did not allow failure to interfere with her goals, and she overcame many obstacles, even though, in the end, she could not overcome her own depression. Marilyn’s struggles began at an early age. Her childhood was practically nonexistent what with her absent father and her mentally unstable mother.
Unknit that threatening unkind brow”, it is amazing that she still holds that same authority, preventing the widow and Bianca from interrupting. She uses language such as “unable worms” and “graceless traitor” where as a proper Elizabethean wife would never use such foul language. Furthermore, throughout the duration of her speech, not one person had dared to interrupt. Katherine has spent all her lifetime filling in the character of a shrew that it would be hard to break her out of that habit. Her speech was for show, knowing that she will be at an
Their daughters find their inner strength and overcome their own obstacles as well, with nothing but themselves and their mother’s anecdotes to get them through it all. Three of the daughters also end their primary marriages and pursue new ones. Almost none of the Asian stereotypes surrounding women are perpetuated here. The only stereotype shown is overcome and pushed aside as the characters mature into stronger women. Joy Luck Club shows this transformation and rejection, not of the stereotype, of the role and oppression of their situation which causes them to act in accordance of that stereotype.
The people of the Dominican Republic are under watch so intensely that feel as if they can’t even speak freely in the privacy of their home, let alone backyard, “the dark fills with spies who are paid to hear things and report them down at security.”(pg. 10) Once can imagine how trapped and contained a Dominican Republic citizen felt. In the Time of the Butterflies discusses the Mirabal sisters and how they were trapped in this country. The sisters were all revolutionaries, all save the second eldest sister Dedé Mirabal. Dedé, the only
I have no beliefs in Christian, so Hester only appears to me as a woman who pursues her liberty and protects her true love. But when her love story took place in a puritan-oriented society, she deserved to wear a burning “A” her entire life and live humbly. Unexpectedly, the society deprived her of everything except hope--- her little daughter, a wonderful child. Despite all of her sorrow, she manages to find redemptions compensating for her sin. And because of this, she later becomes a very respectable member of the community.
And they have been criticised for over-focusing on her personal life at the expense of the substance of her policies. [5] We all know that she is unmarried, but have a partner; she is not religious and doesn’t want to have kids. I also think that the media for sometime too it too far when they focused on her background, such as the history of her partner instead of her policies. Anyway, in her biography titled “The Making of Julia Gillard”, Jacquelline Kent portrays her as a hard worker with plenty of intellectual energy and a willingness to tackle big challenges. Jacquelline portrays Julia as a decent human being who is brave in the face of the ups and downs of political life.
Her daughter, Eve Curie, once said, “The idea of choosing between family life and the scientific career did not even cross Marie’s mind. She was resolved to face love, maternity, and science, all three, and to cheat none of them” (Nobel Lectures). Marie Curie was a successful woman, so if she was able to balance out love, maternity, and science, than any successful woman could as well. This caused women to want to break free of the household, and become successful in the working field even though the men in the working force didn’t seem too pleased about it. Madam Curie travelled around the world giving lectures and being recognized for her work in the scientific field.
She does not think of others and how they feel as an outcome of her actions because she only cares about herself and on how she can please herself at the moment. She really doesn't what race she is being seen as because it only depends on the moment, on how she is feeling and which is best for her. Clare said once that “being a mother is the cruelest thing in the
She was a very independent woman. She wasn’t going to sit around the rest of her life deteriorating because of her continuous failure with marriages. She was a beneficiary. The Wife of Bath looked at her failed marriages as a way to learn from her mistakes, she looked forward in life, and mirrored the future lifestyle of